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Summer We Found the Baby

Amy Hest

Ages: 9+

Published: 2020

Publisher: Candlewick

ISBN: 978-0-7636-6007-9

Keywords: WW II, friendship, siblings, soldiers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Long Island, NY

When Julie and her younger sister find an abandoned baby, they want to keep it, but then the mother and a surprise visitor show up. Set during WWII.